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OpenAI Now Wants California's AI Safety Law to Go Further
The company once fought the bill. Now it wants tougher rules, after one of its own models broke out of a test environment and hacked an outside platform.
Claude Opus 4.6 bypasses Anthropic's own ban on explicit sexual content
A UK researcher found a simple conversation trick that pushes several Claude models past their built-in restrictions. Anthropic has not pulled the affected models.
Historian Jill Lepore thinks the 'artificial state' is doomed. Here's what she means.
With the midterms less than three months away, a leading American historian says the public backlash against AI and data centres could reshape the November vote.
Why Silicon Valley Still Does Not Understand the AI Backlash
More than half of Americans under 30 are more worried than excited about AI. Tech CEOs are diagnosing the wrong problem, and ordinary people are starting to notice.
The 'AI Consciousness' Debate Is a Legal Escape Hatch for Big Tech
When AI companies hint their systems might be sentient, they may be building a case to dodge responsibility for real-world harms. Here is why that matters for everyone, not just lawyers.
OpenAI is bringing ads inside ChatGPT to 31 European countries
Free and Go users in Germany, France, Italy and 28 other markets will start seeing sponsored placements. Paid plans stay ad-free.
OpenAI pledges $5 million to help government watchdogs keep up with AI
The company says human reviewers can't manually check systems that run at machine speed, and is offering tools, training and credits to the bodies meant to hold national security AI to account.
Anthropic's Invisible AI Watermarks Were Cracked in Four Hours
The EU's new content-labelling rules forced Anthropic to watermark every Claude response. Developers tore through the system before the news cycle ended. Here's what that means for workers, writers, and anyone who uses AI tools.
Meta ran ads for an app that made deepfake porn of politicians. Again.
A tool called Kromix bought ad space on Meta's platforms promising 'no restrictions' and showing a woman resembling a sitting US politician in a pornographic video. Meta's policies already ban this. They ran the ads anyway.
She Applied for Thousands of Jobs and Got Zero Interviews. Now She's Suing the AI That Screened Her Out
A California lawsuit targets Eightfold AI, a hiring software company used by PayPal and Microsoft, arguing that its automated screening tools secretly rank job applicants without telling them or giving them a chance to challenge the results.
Bernie Sanders says AI is a real issue. Is anyone in Washington actually treating it that way?
A prominent senator's op-ed names artificial intelligence alongside healthcare costs and inequality as threats working families face. The political system, he argues, is not keeping up.
Jill Lepore's New Book Says AI Is Already Dismantling Democracy. Is She Right?
A Pulitzer-winning historian argues that big tech's grip on public life is not a future threat but a present reality, and her new book spells out exactly what that looks like.
Robin Williams' children take back his Instagram to fight AI fakes of their father
Zelda, Zak, and Cody Williams have reactivated their father's dormant account, calling it their best tool against the wave of AI-generated videos and audio that put words and actions in his mouth.
Autonomous Drones Are Already Killing Without Accountability. That Is the Real AI Weapons Problem
A military surgeon argues the danger from AI in weapons isn't some far-off sci-fi threat. It's happening now, and the law of war isn't keeping up.
What are people actually doing with AI chatbots? A new study looked at nearly 25,000 real conversations to find out
AI companies publish usage reports, but researchers say those reports leave out the messy parts. A new independent project called the AI Observatory dug into real chat data and found a very different picture.